Improvement in safety-attachments for breast-pins



. mental plate or pin-setting, A.

i side, intowhich the pin a is to be sprung.

1 tant CHARLES RPIERCE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHGDE ISLAND.

Leners Paten; Nt. 91,261, dated June 15, 1869.

IMPRGVMENT IN SAFETY-ATTACBIENTS POR BREAST-PNS.

The Schedule referred to these LettenvPatent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, CHARLES F. PIERCE, of the city a'nd county of'Providence, in the State of- Rhode Island, have in rented a new anduseful Improvement in Breast-Pins, and other like articles intended tobe secured to the person by catch-pins aud I do hereby declare that thefollowing specification, taken in connection with the drawings, making apart of the same, is a full, cleanand exact description thereof.

Figures 1,2, and 3, are views of a breast-pin in dierent positions,showing the improvement.

Figures 4 and v5 are side views of the piu shown at figs. 1 and 2.

Figure 6 is details. v

The improvement consists in attaching to the catchpost of the breast-pina movable shield for covering the point of the pin, whereby theliability of being pricked by a sharp exposed p oiut is prevented, andalso a further security furnished against the pin becoming unfastened.

In the drawingsa is the pin, and

b, the joint or hinge, of common construction, and capable of beingapplied to any form or style of ornac is the catch-post, furnished witha notch in its The shield is shown at d, g. 3, and separately at iig. 6.It is hinged to the post c, just below the pinnotch, and can be easilyvibrated ou the post as a pivot.

That portion of the shield which is to cover the point of the pinconsists of a tube whose bore is as large as the wire of the pinprojecting beyond the post, and a space is left between such tubularpart and the post. c, so as not, when the shield is turned as seen atfig. 3, to prevent the pin from being sprung into the catch.

The lower end yof the tube may be closed or not, as i preferred.

A longitudinal slit is cut in the side of the tube, of sufficient lengthand width to enable the projecting point of the pin to be sprung throughthe slit when the shield is turned uponthe post, so as to stand in thedirection of the length of the pin.

The pin a. is to be sprung into the notch in the post c, to secure thebreast-pin, or like article, to the clothing, the shield at this timebeing in the position shown at iig. 3.

The shield is then to beturned on its pivot into line with the pin, asbefore explained, and as shown at fig. 2.

It is apparent from the foregoing, that not only by this device will thesharp point otlthe pin be covered, but also that it will be impossiblefor the pin to work out of Athe catch so longas the shield isin itsproper positio.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of the hinged shield d with its slotted stud, and thetongue of a breast-pin, or like article, operating substantially asdescribed, for the

